I’m blessed to be able to use this column to share my knowledge. It allows me to empower you to do many jobs you might never think of doing yourself. In the past, working with water lines required a decent amount of experience. You had to know how to solder copper tubing. I recorded a…
Orange Ice Cream
View the print-ready version of this recipe. When I say this Orange Ice Cream recipe is “award winning”, it’s the truth! When I was a young girl, my Aunt Judy entered it into a contest at Lagoon, in Utah and won the first place ribbon! She shared the recipe with my mom and it was…
How to Have a Fun Summer When Your Finances Fall Short
With layoffs, bank closures and inflation, financial tensions remain high for many Americans heading into the summer. In a fall 2022 survey conducted by The Harris Poll for the American Psychological Association, 83 percent of adults said inflation was a source of stress, and 56 percent said they and/or their family had to make different…
How to Help Your Children Buy a Home
By Emma Patch From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Given today’s high home prices, many parents these days want to help their adult children buy their first home. One way to do that is through an intra-family loan that works for parents and children. You may be able to offer your child a lower interest rate than…
Epoch Watchlist: What to Watch for May 5–11
This week, we feature a hilarious satire about the world’s first notable smartphone and an immersive animated fantasy about a unicorn’s quest. New Release‘BlackBerry’ Before the iPhone, Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Jim Balsillie (Glenn Howerton) of the Canadian technology company Research in Motion, paved the way for one of the first smartphones, the BlackBerry….
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for May 5–11
This week, we feature the gripping sports history of a U.S. team in the Berlin Olympics and a potent analysis of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) threat to our country. Geopolitics ‘The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America’ By Bill Gertz The People’s Republic of China has grown in power―economically and militarily―at an…
Divers Explore Abysmal Undersea Sinkhole, Revealed as World’s 2nd Deepest—Here’s How Deep
The local Yucatán fishermen definitely knew they existed—but nobody really knew how insanely deep they were until recently. It was revealed that the second-deepest submerged sinkhole in the world was found just off the coast of Mexico. The underwater sinkholes east of the Yucatán Peninsula have been called “pozas” by locals, though scientists term them…
This Naughty ‘Two-Faced’ Cat Is the Fun Version of Batman’s Two-Face—And People Just Love Her
It’s not special breeding but a random quirk of nature that has given this adorable chimera cat from Eastern Europe her beautiful and unique look. Constantly likened to the famous supervillain Two-Face from the Batman comic book series—but infinitely sweeter—Yana has perfectly split facial markings. “She is a mixture of a red dad with a…
This Bizarre Town With Thin, Wavy Farms Looks Like Wonderland, Has One Road for 6,000 Villagers
It might seem something of a wonderland when viewed from above—the village’s green- and gold-striped landscape weaves a tapestry that stretches toward the horizon, as far as the eye can see. A long, lonely thread of street prods through the village of Sułoszowa, 28 miles northwest of Krakow, Poland. That connects its nearly 6,000 inhabitants…
7 Tips to Take Control of Your Smartphone Before It Takes Control of You
By the time you’ve read this article, you may have felt the pull to check your smartphone—more than once. Americans are inexorably tethered to the little black screens in our pockets even though we know they can bring us more harm than good. So how do we keep our smartphone use in check? In 2018,…
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